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which miserably failed are being followed. There is mad race for suicidal development as the very index of development is higher and higher level of consumption which is depleting and diminishing natural resources. The economic theories, principles and practices being followed are suicidal and the so called eminent economists are agents of suicidal trends.
It is a paradox, a travesty that on one hand human beings sincerely wish their progeny, children, grand-grand-grand children to be happy but on the other hand simultaneously consuming and exhausting the resources at the speed that nothing of the most of the minerals after 100-200 years or so will be left for future generations and air, water, soil the basic resources for life will be so much polluted that even survival may not be possible. The yoga being practised and popularised by majority of yoga teachers is not yoga but a commercial enterprise mostly concentrated on physical and mental cures. The effects claimed are more psychological or hypnotic then factual and real as in case of faith therapy. Mostly the patients continue to take medicines and if medicines are stopped, their effect may manifest later during yogic practices. Even if there is curative effect of yoga practices, it will not be sustained for long if pollution of air, water, food continue increasingly more and more.
In U.S. patenting of 136 postures have been done and Indian yogis have been taken by surprise. The efforts are being made to prove yoga Asanas (postures) of Indian origin. A ludicrous form of yoga named “DOGA" is gaining popularity in U.S. it is called "DOGA" because it is practised along with the pet dogs. It combines massage and meditation with gentle stretching for dogs and their human partners. Kristyn Caliendo is a certified instructor of "DOGA" in Chicago. It is a perverted form of Yoga and will trivialize the 2500 years old practise of noble yoga and turn into a fad. Yoga teachers should take legal action against it also.
The ideal yoga is not the yoga being practised that treats only the symptoms and not the root causes. The ideal yoga is that which shall not only bridge but completely remove the gap between nature and mankind. The problems, their causes and remedies the pendulum swings, progress and regress, ups and down, happy and unhappy periods in various areas, societies and civilisations, can be comprehensively, logically and scientifically understood by studying and analysing the processes of progression and retrogression des cribed in detail in Jain chronology. Study of Jain Cosmology particularly about the areas where the conditions do not change to bad and remain happy, peaceful and harmonius for all times is also important to understand the fundamentals - the yogic symbiosis with nature, for lasting peace and happiness.
In Jain cosmology there is mention of areas, may be some planets including our planet earth, as 'Karmabhumis' where there is continuous change from best to worse and then in reverse from worse to best. The change from best
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